Gage mechanism for sole-pressing machines.



E. N PREBLE.

GAGE MECHANISM FOR SOLE PRESSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.2. i915.

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EDWINIW. 'IPBEBLE, 01E BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GAGE MECHANISM FOR SOLE-PRESSING MACHINES.

Application filed August 2 To all whom it may concern:

lBe it known that I, EDWIN N. PREBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain'new towhich it appertains to make and use the same. 1 V The present invention relates to sole pressing machines, and more particularly to mechanism for gaging the position of a flat sole with relation to the cooperating press- The object of the present invention is to provide an improved type of gaging mechanism which cooperates with the sole supporting form to locate the. flat sole in proper.

operative relation to the pressing form. With the above object in view, the several features of the invention consist in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, the advantages of which will-be obvious to those skilled in the art from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings illustrat- Figure 1 represents an elevation, partly in section, of the supporting forms and cooperating gage devices, and Fig. 2 is a view illustrating the gage devices-with the forms.

removed from operative relation thereto.

The present invention is illustrated in connection with a machine of the type shown and described in the patent to Preble, No. 1,004,075, dated September 26, 1911.

v This machine comprises a sole supporting form 1 and a cooperating pressing form 2 Which are relatively actuated to press a. flat sole, indicated at 3, between them. The sole supporting form is mounted upon a horizontally movable slide 5 which is actuated in the usual manner, and is provided with a carrier 7 supporting a gripping device 8 and heel age 9. The heel gage comprises a pair of oppositely extending wings 10 which are pivoted at 11 upon a gage block12 in such a manner that the heel 'endof the Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Apr. 3, 191?.

, '1915. Serial No. 43,309

sole is allowed to extend between the wings to position the sole longitudinally and center it with relation to the supporting form.

It is desirable that the wings of the gage member shall permanently contact with the surface of the sole supporting form ind ependently'of the height of the form, in order to maintain the gage member in operative relation to the heel end of the sole and to prevent the insertion of the sole between the wings of the gage and the surface of the contemplates the provision of a heel gage which is pivoted at one end-and is provided with means for yieldingly maintaining the wings of the gage member in contact with the surface of the sole supporting form which extends beneath the gage, the rear end being indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The gage block is fulcrumed at 15 upon a gage slide 16 which is adjustably mounted. in the usual manner upon a guide rod 17 forming a part of the carrier 7 The rear end of the gage block is provided with a depending tail 19 which is'engaged by a plunger 20 slidingly supported in the slide .16

and actuated by a spring 22 to normally maintain the wings of the gage member in contact with the surface of the form. With this construction, it will be noted that the position of the heel gage may be conveniently adjusted by moving the slide 16, and the wings of the gage member are permanentiy maintained in contact with the surface of the form through. the action of the spring-pressed plunger which contacts with vthe depending tail 19.

sole supporting form, and means for main- To this end the present invention taining the gage in yielding contact with the a depending tail, and a spring-pressed plunsurface of the form. v ger mounted in the slide and engaging with 2. A sole pressing machine comprising 00- the tail to normally maintain the gage in operating sole pressing forms, a gage slide contact with the surface of the sole support- 10 5 adjustable with relation to the forms, a heel ing form,

gage fulcrumed upon the slide and having EDWIN N. PREBLE. 

